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Integrating Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) into your Practice  The tapping points:  Inferior to the eyebrow towards the midline  Lateral to the eyes  Inferior to the eyes  Inferior to the nose, but superior to the lips  Inferior to the lips, but superior to the chin  Infraclavicular fossa towards midline  4 inches below the arm, in the armpit

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Principles of Integrative Cancer Medicine  Old view – Somatic mutation theory  Cancer is a linear process: mutations occur and it grows into a tumor. The tumor needs to be removed  New view – Tissue organization field theory (TOFT) by Sonnenschein and Soto  Early cancers may spontaneously regress  Established cancers may stay dormant  The focus is on changing the terrain to prevent tumor progression and promote tumor regression  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3882065/

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Never only opioids: policy trends, patient experience, and practice models in treating people with pain  Moderated by John Weeks  Panelists:  Heather Tick, MA, MD  Martha Menard, PhD, LMT  University of Virginia School of Medicine study  150 in-depth qualitative interviews and content analysis of self-reported narratives with people living in chronic pain and physicians involved with medical errors  Many cultivated positive attitudes while demonstrating persistence

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 Myofascial pain  Healing abilities  The benefits of opioids?  Acute use  Chronic use  History of opioid use in US  Long term opioid therapy (> 3 months) Never only opioids: policy trends, patient experience, and practice models in treating people with pain

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Environmental Influences on Health: Research, Preventions, and Treatment Strategies  Robert Rountree, MD  Save the bees: stop pesticides and use untreated seeds  Colony collapse disorder  Neonicotinoids: block nicotinic acetylcholine receptors of insects  Most widely used pesticide in the world  No data and studies  War in toxicology  Old school vs. new endocrinology research

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Unraveling the mysteries of the Eye  Presented by Robert Abel, MD  Study from Harvard demonstrated that doctors tend to make a diagnosis in 18 seconds  Compare this to Sherlock who was always skeptical  Medicine is rational/linear thinking + artistic/non-linear thinking  80% of dx can be made from patient

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Unraveling the mysteries of the Eye  Eyes can tell you clues  Relationship to different organs (brain, liver)  Vision is more than just an eye trait  Four stressors to the eye  UV light  Poor nutrition  Unhealthy lifestyles  Stress  Eye-brain connection  Connection to the world  Vision

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Global Pain & Fatigue Syndromes Assessment and Treatment: When it is Fibromyalgia and When it is Not!  Presented by David Brady, ND, DC, CCN, DACBN  The different names of fibromyalgia  Fibrositis, Psychogenic rheumatism  Diagnostic criteria by ACR was created for research purposes  Central sensitivity syndrome  Perception of pain rather than a peripheral problem  CFS is not FM  Great FM masqueraders: sub-optimal thyroid function, myofascial pain syndrome, and sub-optimal mitochondrial/energy metabolism